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Early Irish law, commonly known as Brehon law, comprised the statutes and customs that governed everyday life in Gaelic Ireland during the early medieval period. Administered by professional jurists called brehons, it blended native secular custom with Christian principles absorbed after Ireland's conversion. The system continued to operate even after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169, coexisting with canon law and the English common law introduced in the twelfth century, and saw renewed prominence from the thirteenth century before English common law became dominant by the seventeenth century. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Early Irish law, also called Brehon law, comprised the statutes which governed everyday life... a civil rather than a criminal codeView the Source
Early Irish law (Wikipedia)
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    Early Irish law, also called Brehon law (from the old Irish word breithim meaning judge), comprised the statutes which governed everyday life in Gaelic Ireland.
  • In Group: Customary and Folk Law of Medieval Europe, Introduction, sentence 1
    Early Irish law, also called Brehon law (from the old Irish word breithim meaning judge), comprised the statutes which governed everyday life in Gaelic Ireland.
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Cain Adomnain (Wikipedia)
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also known as the Lex Innocentium (Law of Innocents), was promulgated amongst a gathering of Gaelic and Pictish notables
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